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Code Merge Request #5: Translate toolbar button tooltips (open)
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Jens Hoffmann wants to merge 1 commit from /u/cudos/scid/ to master, 2015-11-29
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(translate-toolbar-button-tooltips)
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Jens Hoffmann
Use translations for toolbar button tooltips |
2015-11-23 17:22:24 | Tree |
There are two common ways to deal with a language change:
- update the texts on the fly
- require to restart the program
This patch implements the second approach, and it's not necessarily a bad thing (the code is simpler).
However, the rest of Scid code try to update the texts on the fly and i believe that an hybrid is confusing: the menus (for example) are immediately updated but tooltips are updated only after a restart.
I honestly prefer the "restart to make changes effective", but implementing a coherent approach is probably the right thing to do.
Maybe the best way to proceed is to compile a list identifing the code that updates immediately and the code that require a restart.
Okay, I'll try to compile that list.
I just found out that tcl has a pretty neat framework around i18n (msgcat) (since tcl 8.1). Right now I try to see how msgcat could be integrated into Scid. I have already the impression that using msgcat would move some complexity out of tcl/languages.tcl and the lang/ files itself and increase the maintability for i18n.
Do you already have an opinion about using msgcat in Scid?